Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropperโs farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.
Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presentsย March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin andย New York Timesย best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist forย Swallow Me Whole).
Marchย is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewisโ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewisโ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.
Book Oneย spans John Lewisโ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.
Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book โMartin Luther King and the Montgomery Story.โ Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
